Reflections and ramblings from life in community in Birmingham city centre.

Friday, 13 May 2016

A Palette of Emotions

I haven't written any poetry for a while ... certainly nothing that has even got close to what could be described as finished.

But today at St Chad's Sanctuary, we took a break from preparing for reading exams and wrote poetry. Once again, I was able to appreciate my students' ability to say so much with so little and to admire their capacity for creativity, as together they produced poetry which included:

Quite apart from being a whole lot of fun (at least for me, and hopefully for my students too) and being another different way of reinforcing some English vocabulary, it also inspired me to come away and use a similar premise and structure to that I had given them (somewhat extended) to write something of my own: